The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-19
FLORIDA

FLORIDA
Alexander Brown Crestview has been
granted a pension for services in the Next
can war
Frank H. Fee has been appointed post
master at Melbourne, Brevard county, vice
Daniel w. McQuaig.
At Altoona Dr. Abernethy has contracted
to continue digging the artesian well, and
will send it down to 900 feet.
The Post Office Department announces
that after July / next there win be daily
mail from Quincy to Concord.
The tower on the new city building at
Pensacola will be about 100 feet from the
top to the ground, the tallest spire in the
city.
The cotton shipments at Bombay are now
nearly over, and have been the largest ever
sent from that section. The sample has
been fair average, and has commanded
| good paying prices.
! As the new Methodist church at Altoona
is nearly completed the present Union Sab
bath school OF the Methodist and Baptist
churches will disband next Sunday. Both
will at once organize UNCONVENTIONAL
school at their respective places of worship.
Supt. Dillon of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, was occupied at Jackson
vile Monday trying to ferret out the opera
tor who assumed the role of calamity liar,
and he thinks he has spotted him. The head
of the offender will probably pay the pen
| atty.
The Sullivan Timber Company, having
occasion to make payment of $780, 900 at
Mobile, one day last week sent over the sum
| in silver by tug from Pensacola. Silver
| being at discount in one place and at
premium in the other, the company made
500 by the operation.
Brooksvile NetCs: The pleasant face of
Mr. Stokes was on our streets Thursday.
He used to drive the hack between Tampa
and Gainesville when Brooksville had but
two mails a week, and all of our old citizens
will recall with pleasure the memory of the
days when "Stokes came down.
Applicants for the West Point cadetship
of the Second Congressional district of
Florida will be held at Jacksonville Nov. /.
4. II. Jones, of Jacksonville, Hon. j. +.
Welborne, of Sanford, and Maj. S. Conant,
of Palatka, are the Board of Examiners for
| the examination of such applicants as may
present themselves on that date.
A. j. Wyman, of Archer, has made the
following showing of the expenses, etc, of
his three-fourths acre of cucumbers: Gross
receipts, S727 80; check, $451 co. crates
fertilizers, ETC., 500; net, 1851. Add to
| this, crop of cow peas and another of English
peas and three paying crops within the
year show what can be done by an effort.
Owing to break of machinery in the
brick machine at Sorrento work has sus-
pended for a short time. A party of San
ford gentlemen have recently leased this
m2chlne, and intend putting on a force of
hands and making an immense thing of it,
The clay found here is very fine, possessing
peculiar mineral substance which, when
burned, makes the brick as strong as iron
Quite fortune will be made out of this
undertaking.
Maj. Alex. st. Clair Abrams will speak at
Yalaha, Wednesday, Oct. 10, day; Bloom
field, Wednesday, Oct. 10, night; Pittman
and Ravenswood. at Pittman, Friday, Oct.
81, day; Fort Mason, Friday, Oct 81, night
Umatilla, Saturday, Oct 22, day; Altoona,
Saturday, Oct. %, night; Sorrento, Mon
day, Oct. "a, day; Eustis, Monday, Oct. "a,
night. Unless otherwise announced, the
day meetings will be held at 10 o'clock and
the night meetings at O'Clock.
The Board of Health of Levy county at
its meeting Monday passed the following
| resolutions: That the thanks of this board
are due to Mr. Lewis Morris, agent of the
Faber Pencil Company, for his prompt ac-
| ton in telegraphing this board the fact that
report was accredited in Tallahassee that
yellow fever existed in Jacksonville, a re-
| port, however, which, upon official investi-
cation, this board is pleased to know. proved
to be unfounded. That the Secretary be
| directed to transmit copy of this resolu-
ton to Mr.. Morris
| The United States Supreme Court, in the
| case of A. j. Coffee against Groovey, has
reversed the decision of the Supreme Court
of the State of Florida. This case grew out
| of disputed boundary line between Flori-
| da and Georgia. The line was fixed in the
| last century, and when new survey was
| mazda HicnOvaraA hot ba g.,
vey was erroneous, and that it Tapped the
| land of Florida. Then arose the question
of the validity of the titles to this land.
| which had been given by Georgia, The
Supreme Court holds that the titles are
| good.
| AT Mayport, about week ago. a haul
was made with a seine owned bv NJ Conant
and fished by J. B. Arnau and crew, around
school of berry fish. The catch was
| eghty-four bushels of fish. While they
were taking the fish out of the seine on the
beach shark of the man-eating species
made rush for the fish and grabbed the
net in his mouth. He seemed bound to claim
share. One of the crew killed him with
an oar, by striking him on the head, while
others rushed into the water, grasped him
by the tail and pulled him out He was
nine feet long.
At Mayport for the past five days there
| has been gale from the northeast, with the
| highest tides of the past nine years The
cottages of Jacksonville people have suffered
severely. The brealxwaters on the entire
front, with the exception of N. A. Halls,
have gone. Many of the houses have been
undermined by the waves, and some of the
foundation posts washed out. Henry
Clark's back porch is down. Charles
Marvin's front, and part of his side
porch is gone. McDuff's and Moses
| Browns houses are both down-complete
wrecks There are three vessels off the bar
at anchor. One is recognized as the Louis
Bucli, the other two are three masters. A
fourth Schooner was reported having been
! seen last evening. The weather has been
too rough for the pilots to board them, but
will probably bring them in to-day.
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